The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-24


chief defendant in the case. 1t was he
who was charged with having visited
Llewellyn precinct where the
votes were being counted about
half an hour before the raiders
entered, on which occasion Devices
Bolter was killed and it was he who, in
the Indignation meeting at Brennan,
introduced a resolution requiring
certain Republicans to cease a certain
line of conduct or leave the county. He
was examined by Senator Speoner.
Judge Kirk in reply to inquiries, said
he presided as it was his official duty to
do, over the canvass of votes. The
Supreme Court of the State had decided
some months previously THAT diamond
shaped tickets (many of which were
thrown out in Washington county last
election) were valid and copies of the
decisions of the court were furnished
him. AS matter of fact, however, no
occasion had arisen within his jurisdic-
ton involving the question of the point
and he had never read the
decision of the Supreme Court.
Judge Kirk described his visit to
Chapel Hill and LeHewyn's polling
place. Witness was asked with regard
to kilograms he sent on election day.
be sent and remembered that he had al
so sent one himself. To the best of his
recollectiOns his telegram was to the eff
feet that ''things looked bad, - at Bren-
ham. Did not remember that the
words do your work." were added.
To the best of his recollection they
were not.
A LARGE APPROPRIATION.
The House Committee on Public
Buildings has agreed to report bin APP
prOpriating 81 200, 900 for the erection
of a public building at Milwaukee, Wis.
Next to the New York Custom House
this measure carries the largest apprO-
priation of any reported from the COM
mittee during the season.
BOND CALL.
The Acting Secretary of the Treas
ury this afternoon issued call for $10,-
OO0,0 900 of 3 per cent bonds. The call
will mature April 1st.
NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following
nominations to the Senate to-day:
Amos w. Thayer, of Missouri, to be
United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Missouri.
THE TEXAS OUTAGEs.
r. p. Hackworth, (white) Justice of
the Peace of Washington county, Texas,
was recalled before the Investigation
Committee today, and identified the
following note received by him through
he mail:
Brennan, Dec. 5th. X. p. Hackworth, SIR
You have had plenty of time to get away from
from this county for the last two years, and
are as mean and dangerous as any of your
and if you don't go, and that soon, we will pro-
coed TO handle you as we think best.
tSigned.l Society Citizens"
Carl SchultZe, white. one of the Mem
orialists, was sworn. Is Republican,
but published the Independent, a Ger
man paper, at BRENNAN and afterwards
in Galveston. He said threats were
made during the campaign by Judge
Kirk against Hackworth. They were
to the effect that he, Kirk, would hold
He ckwoTth to account, personally, for
any thing he might say during the cam
paign.
NEGOTIATIONS PENDING.
The President to-day sent to the
house the response of the Secretary of
State to a resolution of that body in
Quiring as to the action taken by the
Department of State to protect the in
tereSts of American citizens whose
property was destroyed by fire caused
by insurgents at Aspinwall in 1885.
The Secretary says that negotiations
were commenced in October last and
are now pending between the United
States and Columbia for the purpose of
establishing an international commits
justment of the claims.
SWALLOWED A BOND.
\ resident of Chicago has filed a
claim at the Office of the Treasury De-
partment for the redemption of ST.
600 United States bond, which he says
he swallowed in order to prevent it fall
ing into the hands of burglars. 1t ap-
pears that while he was examining the
bond in his room at late hour in the
N heard in
way he supposed was made by thieves,
and acting on the impulse of the mo-
ment he chewed the bond into a pulp
and swallowed it. 1t was afterwards
discovered that there were no grounds
for his ALARM He now appeals to the
Government to make good his loss.
The First Comptroller has the claim
under consideration.
NATIONAL UNION LEAGUE MEETING.
General GrosvernOr, the President of
the National Union League, has called
a meeting of the National Council, to
be hel6 at the Ebbett House, Washing
ton, on Tuesday, March 1st. 1t is
stated that this will be an important
meeting of prominent representatives
from all parts of the country, and that
action will be taken on matters of in
terest.
|. MORE PENSIONS VETOED.
The President today sent to the Sem
ate messages vetoing a bill granting a
pension to John d. Uncher and Rachel
Ann PierpOnt. AS to the first named
cause, the President maintains that the
disability for which the pension is
asked was not incurred in the service,
and as to the latter case, the President
says that the records of the Pension
Office show since this bill was intro
duced a pension has been granted to
claimant by the Pension Office at the
same rate authorized in the bill.